Dossieraggio, arrest request for Striano and Laudati. But the investigating judge says no to Cantone –

The Perugia prosecutor, Raffaele Cantone, has requested house arrest for the former deputy prosecutor Antonio Laudati, now retired, and for Pasquale Striano, lieutenant of the Guardia di Finanza and for years stationed at the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, investigated in the inquiry into alleged illegal access to databases. The newspaper La Verità revealed it, specifying that “the Perugia investigating judge rejected the request because he did not consider the needs to exist (both are no longer at their old jobs, Laudati is even retired), evidently having not identified any danger of escape, repetition of the crime or tampering with evidence (the investigations are concluded)”.

But Cantone, according to the same newspaper, “has appealed. Now the Review Court will have to evaluate the request in a hearing. Three judges will have to decide who is right between the prosecutor and the investigating judge.” The appeal before the Review Court will be held at the end of the month. The lawyers for Laudati and Striano, “Andrea Castaldo and Massimo Clemente respectively, both avoided commenting extensively and immediately on the decision, but they branded the request as ‘abnormal’.”